Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're talk to me nicer, don't talk to me twice

of music, news and criticism, I'm your host John Caramonica, it is the mailbag episode.

A couple of times a year we like to solicit on the Facebook group and in the Discord, I did

go in the Discord recently, it is in fact jumping, it's my bad, it's my bad for not being

in the Discord, there's a lot of takes, a lot of memes going on, some memes I had not

seen, there were new memes in the Discord, fresh memes.

Is that why the Facebook group is quiet these days?

I feel like the Facebook group's a little quiet and maybe the kind of day to day energy is

going over to the Discord, although I will say I feel like the Facebook group, I'm getting

a lot of like long threads, but maybe not as many threads, but they're long, but they're

maybe not as plentiful, a lot of responses.

The depth is always there.

Yes, but there are like fresh memes in the Discord, if anybody is in need of some, and of

course at the email and on Twitter, a couple, some crucial questions coming through on Twitter,

so we're going to tackle up on the gang is here, first of all, jump paralysis here, Chief

Poppins, who's a critic of the New York Times, JP, what's good man, are you ready for these

bars?

You promised big picture questions.

There are big picture questions, I promise that.

Is that how you lured JP to the pub?

I did, I felt like I needed to salt the bait a little bit.

It sounded like a threat to me.

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